On Oct. 14, 2003, I found myself upstairs at the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Toronto to witness history. Or so I was told. Music piracy was out of control. Napster started it in June 1999, and while it had been sued out of existence by the fall of 2003, dozens of peer-to-peer programs popped up: Gnutella, Audiogalaxy, Satellite, Scout, Kazaa, Morpheus, BitTorrent, eDonkey, eMule, Bearshare, Grokster, LimeWire, and several dozen other file-sharing programs were in the wild. The music industry was in a panic.
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